NFSD: Note an additional requirement when passing TCP sockets to portlist

User space must call listen(3) on SOCK_STREAM sockets passed into
/proc/fs/nfsd/portlist, otherwise that listener is ignored.  Document
this.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index b6a847faa0bbc79ee5ffd9ec128eb6533fc72561..d491fa9df9bd7ca5fab3256d81e5a75538ad9654 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -1061,7 +1061,9 @@ static ssize_t __write_ports(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
  *                     buf:            C string containing an unsigned
  *                                     integer value representing a bound
  *                                     but unconnected socket that is to be
- *                                     used as an NFSD listener
+ *                                     used as an NFSD listener; listen(3)
+ *                                     must be called for a SOCK_STREAM
+ *                                     socket, otherwise it is ignored
  *                     size:           non-zero length of C string in @buf
  * Output:
  *     On success:     NFS service is started;